Cliff and Kate have been racing together for five years and have not yet divorced

Same for Eric and Rick

Scouting Report:

This team is a mix of Untamed New England vets (including one racer who was the final athlete off the Abenaki Lost World section in 2014 -- his team spent over a day in that lively pocket of wilderness) and newer recruits. Cliff and Kate run the Maine Summer Adventure Race, so they know a bit about coastal forests, sea kayaking, and are confident in the thick woods. Evan is an unknown quantity to us; he's a late addition to the team after their original 4th racer got scared away with too many Abenaki bad dreams.

It's tough to predict how successful these hearty adventurers will be at the race, but finishing the full Untamed New England race course is probably on their radar. Waxing philosophical, we're fond of the saying, "once the tide goes out, you find out who has been swimming naked" and for this team, we think they're ready for when the tide goes out. That's probably not the case with all the teams in the race!

Chaos Machine - Lifestraw Team Members

Cliff White (Captain)

Kate White

Rick Keilty

Evan Moreshead

Race team details

Goals for the race

Pack the perfect amount of gear

Arrive at the start on time

Find some rapids and run them

Don’t let Eric steal and eat all the food while the rest of the team is looking at maps

See at least one moose

Achieve a synchronized pooping schedule

Don’t be last, or if so, do it with panache

Previous Untamed New England Highlights

"Rick and Eric competed in Untamed NE 2014 as their first adventure race. One of the highlights of the race happened on night one. Moosehead Lake was so stormy there were huge whitecaps as we were making a 20 mile or so crossing. Rick was navigating purely by trying to keep track of the one or two stars that popped out of the cloud cover, and the canoe kept filling with lots of water. We were about a half mile from land, but Rick kept telling Eric we were only a hundred yards away the entire time to keep them moving along without fear of flooding/flipping. Eric was displeased with this discovery when we got to the other side of the lake and realized we were one of the few teams silly enough to stay on the water during the storm."

Additionally: "Eric heavily leveraged bag balm during the race, and the picture our local paper decided to run post-race was once where his rear end had completely soaked through with bag balm."

Or finally: "The packrafting section was super fun, as it was so windy we kept getting blown 3 strokes backwards for every 2 strokes forward. We ended up having to bail out on them."

Oh, speaking of packrafting: "On the final packrafting section of the dead river, after 4 days of nearly no sleep, we heard a whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh loudly coming from around a bend up ahead. A rescue helicopter came screaming around the corner only 50 yards up from the river, giving us the 'are you ok' signal, to which we responded we were. Another team had lost all of their packrafts farther upstream, and the chopper was coming in to rescue them and make sure everyone was ok. It was reassuring to see that they took safety so seriously."

Team Inspiration

Mostly Twisted Sister songs:

“Be the hunter and the hunted. Keep your target in your sights. Don't be sidetracked or shunted. Let pretenders feel your bite. And if you start to slide, never show you're weak. Don't feel you've got to hide. Remember what you're fighting for, remember what you seek.”

“Oh it's the price we've gotta pay and all the games we've gotta play, makes me wonder if it's worth it to carry on. 'Cause it's a game we've gotta lose, though it's a life we've gotta choose. And the price is all of life until it's done.”

Sponsors

Cheese Doodles, Pop-Tarts, Beaudreaux’s Butt Paste

Team Bio Notes

Chaos Machine is a potent combination of the gazelle-like speed and radar-like navigational capabilities of Chaos Raid, and the gritty, never-say-die attitude of Strong Machine.
We're out to defend our home turf - in fact, we're the reason there's an "untamed" in Untamed New England. We don't need sleep, we go fastest uphill, and we're powered by the sun and the tears of the teams we pass in the night.

Race Status

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